Re: f-spot crashing

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk>]

On 18/06/2010 16:55, Antti Ahonen wrote:
>  I have been considering starting a new one anyway since I started 
> using exifrename on 2009 and it would be nice to rename all by photos 
> in the same way and build a new database with updated names.

I've not heard of exifrename but I think you can also do this in gthumb 
using a bulk rename. Substitute %d where you wish the date and time 
where you want it in the filename. For a while I was using gthumb as a 
pre-processor before importing to f-spot as it allowed me to easily 
assign meaningful file names in bulk. I did get irritated by its lack of 
a real-delete feature (it Moves to Trash) and I moved to a different 
method of renaming my files. It's scruffy, but I import everything into 
f-spot, tag it all, the export it back out of f-spot, and then delete it 
from f-spot (drive and catalog). I then use a script to process the 
files using exiftool and exiv2 and rename the files based on their 
timestamp and the tags I've allocated with f-spot. I then import them 
back into f-spot. It's a mess, but it works!

Dougie